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2014 · action · crime · thriller · survival

Bullet

Directed by Nick Lyon1h 27m2014
ElsewhereIMDb4.24kRT11%
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • cold
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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Danny Trejo plays 'Bullet' a tough cop who takes the law into his own hands when his grandson is kidnapped.

Our read · Bullet (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want Danny Trejo as a vigilante cop tearing through a cartel to save his grandson.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips by minute 5attention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegoredrug usenudity

Skip it tonightSkip if brutal action, drugs, and graphic revenge violence sound exhausting.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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